Do you like your winter holiday fare sugary or spicy? If you like it both ways and are in the mood for gay male short stories that put in you in a holiday mood, habu has both sugar and spice for your pleasure in the form of two very different short stories to mark the season.
"Reluctant Homecoming" is a gay male romance of returning to Christmas roots, set in the American south. The story offers a bittersweet tale of hurt feelings, misunderstandings, and misconnections that are brought to a head and to promises of reconciliation when a young man returns to his family home after a separation of a decade. In a spicy and more raunchy change of mood, "Bought with a Tux" conjures up in habu's mind Christmas of a long-past decade and life. This story zips out to Tokyo for a raucous Christmas, with a young American government employee on lonely temporary duty in Tokyo from Bangkok over the holidays being mistaken for a high-priced rent-boyand deciding just to go with the flow.